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Algeria's health care on the map, in numbers

This map draws 2,494 places from two different registers, which have to be read separately. 600 are public establishments in the Ministry of Health's own register: CHU, EPH, EHS and EPSP. 1,894 are clinics and proximity care facilities mapped by the OpenStreetMap community. They describe different populations of place, so this page never adds them up into a count of Algeria's health facilities.

600

Public facilities

Official, public establishments

1,894

Care facilities

OpenStreetMap community

67

Wilayas with places mapped

of 69

In an emergency

These national lines are free, answered around the clock and reachable everywhere in the country. Call them first: this map helps you find a facility, it does not dispatch help.

SAMU, medical emergencies: 16 · 3016

Protection Civile toll-free numbers: 14 · 1021

Medical assistance: 115

The two layers

Public facilities
The Ministry of Health's own register of the public establishments it runs: centres hospitalo-universitaires, établissements publics hospitaliers, établissements hospitaliers spécialisés and établissements publics de santé de proximité. It is official and closed. 600 of its records carry coordinates and are drawn here; 95 more sit in the register with no usable location, so they exist in the data but not on the map. Last refreshed Jun 27, 2026.
Care facilities
An OpenStreetMap community extract of the care no official register enumerates: polycliniques, salles de soins, centres de santé, maternités and clinics. 1,894 places, mapped by volunteers. It is not a register: coverage is partial and uneven between wilayas, and 277 of these places carry no name at all. Extract taken Aug 8, 2026.

The two layers can hold the same building twice. The care layer excludes, by construction, every OpenStreetMap object that a hospital record in the ministry register already points at, so no hospital is published twice under the same object. Below that tier the layers do touch, on purpose: {sharedAnchors} records in the register are proximity-health entities (EPSP) whose OpenStreetMap reference is a geocoding anchor on the entity's seat, while the care layer holds the facility standing there. An entity on one side, a facility on the other. Beyond those, records carrying no OpenStreetMap reference could still describe an establishment the community has mapped separately, and nothing can detect that. That is why the layers sit side by side and are never summed.

What each type means

Public facilities

CHU17
Centre hospitalo-universitaire, the teaching hospital of a wilaya, tied to a faculty of medicine and carrying the widest range of specialities.
EPH245
Établissement public hospitalier, the general public hospital serving a daira or a group of communes.
EHS74
Établissement hospitalier spécialisé, a public hospital dedicated to one field: cancer, psychiatry, ophthalmology, maternity and others.
EPSP259
Établissement public de santé de proximité, the public body that runs a wilaya's primary care network. The point on the map is its seat, not a clinic you walk into; the facilities it runs are in the care layer.
Hospital5
Establishments the register lists simply as a hospital, without one of the statutory categories above.

Care facilities

Clinic1,101
The broadest word on this layer and by far its biggest group. In Algerian usage a clinique is usually private, but it is also the word mappers reach for when nothing more precise fits, so this group also holds dialysis and imaging centres, laboratories and school health units. The map does not assert an ownership the source has not recorded.
Polyclinic418
A public multi-service structure for outpatient consultations, run by the EPSP of its wilaya. The first place most people go for care that does not need a hospital.
Dispensary210
Salle de soins or dispensaire, the smallest public unit: dressings, injections, vaccination and basic follow-up, often the only health structure in a rural commune.
Health centre137
A health centre, between the salle de soins and the polyclinique, usually offering consultations and a small permanence.
Maternity28
A maternity or delivery clinic, mapped as a facility of its own rather than as a ward inside a larger hospital.

How complete is this map?

Neither layer is complete, and they are incomplete in different ways. The ministry register reaches 58 wilayas here: 95 of its establishments carry no usable location, and its records are still keyed to the wilayas as they stood before the 2026 reform, so none of the eleven new wilayas has a record of its own. The community layer reaches 66 wilayas and grows only when someone maps a place. No coverage percentage is published for it, because no public register enumerates private clinics or proximity structures to divide by.

2 wilayas have nothing mapped in either layer: Bir El Ater, El Aricha. If a facility you know is missing from the community layer, adding it on openstreetmap.org adds it here at the next refresh.

Common questions

How many health facilities are there in Algeria?
This map does not answer that, and says so rather than inventing a total. It draws 2,494 places from two registers that describe different things: 600 public establishments from the Ministry of Health register, and 1,894 clinics and proximity care facilities mapped by the OpenStreetMap community. No official register enumerates private clinics or proximity structures at facility level, so there is no national total to measure either layer against.
Why are there two layers instead of one?
Because they are two different kinds of fact. The Ministry of Health register is official and closed: it lists the public establishments the ministry runs, and nothing else. The OpenStreetMap layer is a community extract: it reaches the polycliniques, salles de soins, centres de santé, maternités and private clinics that no open register lists, and it is partial. Merging them into one number would hide which of the two a given place came from.
Are private clinics included?
Some are, in the care layer, but this is not a directory of private clinics. OpenStreetMap records ownership only when a mapper has entered it, so most of these places assert no sector at all. Where the source says private, the panel says private; where the source says nothing, the map says nothing rather than guessing.
Why is a facility I know missing?
The care layer is built from OpenStreetMap, a community project: a place appears once someone has mapped it, so coverage is uneven between wilayas. Anyone can add a missing facility on openstreetmap.org and it will appear here at the next refresh. The register layer misses places for a different reason: 95 establishments are in the ministry register with no usable location, so they cannot be drawn.
How do I find the nearest care facility?
Use Find nearest on the map to rank both layers by distance from your position, or open your wilaya's page from the list at the bottom of this page. In an emergency, call 16 or 14 instead of searching the map.
What number do I call for a medical emergency in Algeria?
Call 16 for the SAMU, the medical emergency service, or 14 for the Protection Civile, which handles rescue and ambulance evacuation. Both are free and answered around the clock across the country.

Health facilities by wilaya